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Adolf Eichmann behind Bulletproof Glass during his Trial in Jerusalem (1961)
During the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) had served as an SS Obersturmbannführer and as the head of Department IV B 4 (Jewish Affairs and Evacuation)....
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Construction of the Oil Refinery in Schwedt (1962)
A treaty signed in Moscow on December 18, 1959, called for the construction of a crude oil pipeline from the Soviet Union, through Poland, to Schwedt on the Oder River in the GDR. On November 11,....
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Training Course for Women (1962)
The GDR constitution of 1949 provided for legal equality between men and women; it explicitly repudiated regulations standing in the way of women’s emancipation and decreed that women had a right....
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Walter Hallstein (c. 1955)
As state secretary in the Federal Chancellery (1950/51) and state secretary in the Foreign Office (beginning in 1951), law professor Walter Hallstein played a....
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Wolf Biermann in his Apartment on Chausseestraße, East Berlin (1966)
In 1953, at the age of 16, Wolf Biermann – the son of Communist resistance fighter Dagobert Biermann, who was murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz – emigrated from....
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Foreign Students at Karl Marx University in Leipzig (c. 1960)
Under the ideological guidelines of “proletarian“ or “socialist internationalism,” foreign students were afforded the opportunity to study in the GDR starting in 1951. Bilateral treaties, cooperation....
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Romy Schneider and Horst Buchholz (1957)
Romy Schneider and Horst Buchholz were two of the leading idols of West German cinema in the 1950s. The photo shows a scene....
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Water Pollution in North Rhine-Westphalia (1958)
The layer of foam visible in this 1958 photograph of the Niers River in the heavily industrialized state of North Rhine-Westphalia makes clear that the negative effects of West Germany's postwar....
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Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Secretary (1960)
Paramount in the Federal Republic's foreign policy under Konrad Adenauer was integration with the West, with the aim being a close bond with the states of Western....
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Walter Ulbricht's Speech on the "Berlin Question" (June 15, 1961)
In the photograph below, Walter Ulbricht, head of the GDR State Council, discusses the “Berlin Question” at an international press conference on June 15, 1961, at the House of Ministries in East....
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